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• Trade union struggles in Asia: Struggle for better working conditions and democracy (Wilson Fortaleza,Partido ng Manggagawa, A Paper presented during the 2nd Asian Global Justice School) 

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• China: end of the Model¹ ---- Or the Birth of a New One?, by Au Loong Yu²

China’s thirty years of nearly uninterrupted high growth has encountered great challenge as global economic crisis has hit China’s export hard. Since China’s trade as a percentage of GDP is as high as 70%, the export-led growth mode has practically ended. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is aware of this. Back in April 2008 President Hu Jintao spoke of the need to change the mode of development from export-led growth to domestic-led growth by expanding domestic demand. In November the 4 trillion RMB of rescue package followed. The economy is slowing down, and the target of the rescue package at “Baoba,” or keeping the growth rate at 8 percent, is hard to achieve. Nevertheless, with a slower growth rate of 5-6 percent, which most commentators are speculating, is still outstanding when the US and EU are sinking further into deep recession. The global downturn on one hand and China’s relative strength in containing the crisis on the other makes the topic “the rise of China” more heated than ever. READ MORE

• Globalization and Migration, 

  (By Piet Engelschman, presented during the Second Asian Global Justice School of the IIRE-Manila, August 2010)

Mankind has always migrated. This has been the case since we first came out of East- Africa.  The reasons throughout history were always the same: food, shelter, security, better life. Sometimes the migration was voluntary, sometimes forced. Sometimes migration was voluntary, sometimes forced. As a result of migration in many area’s we saw mixed populations.  

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• The Ecological Crisis in Sri Lanka

• The First Victory, By Farooq Tariq, (23\07\2010)

• Updates on the 2nd Asian Global Justice School (AGJS)

With just a month to go before the Second Asian Global Justice School (AGJS), the IIRE-Manila is on the final stage of preparations for the success of the activity. READ MORE

• The Politics of the Poor - Socialism in Indonesia

• Asian Left: 'Lift the Siege on Gaza! Support BDS on Apartheid Israel" 

June 25, 2010 -- As Israel stands increasingly isolated following its manufactured confrontation on May 31, 2010, with the peace flotilla in which nine Turkish activists on the Mavi Marmara were murdered, now is the time to increase the pressure on Israel to lift the siege of Gaza. READ MORE

• Condemnation of Israel’s Attack on Humanitarian Aid to Gaza 

The Mindanao Peoples’ Peace Movement a coalition of more than a hundred multi-sectoral, peace and human rights organizations coming from the grassroots tri-peoples communities in Mindanao would like to add our collective voice to the raging outrage and protests worldwide against Israel’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla in international waters on May 31,2010 and the subsequent arrest of the passengers of the MV Rachel Corrie on June 5,2010. READ MORE

These successes of the IIRE-Amsterdam and the challenges faced by third world activists, particularly the Asian sections, greatly inspired the establishment of the International Institute for Research and Education – Manila (IIRE-Manila). The present global economic crisis brought about by the barbaric capitalist system has caused indescribable sufferings to the peoples of the third world, since they are the most vulnerable and unsecured sections of the world against globalization. Thus, the struggle of these peoples for their basic right to live is also directly aimed at crippling the imperialists and capitalists in their respective countries.

          On the other hand, the opportunities for reflection and studies in IIRE-Amsterdam for third word activists have become increasingly difficult, financially and technically. Thus, the need to open a more accessible venue for discussions to third world activists, specifically, Asia-Pacific activists, amidst the growing difficulties and challenges, reinforced the necessity of establishing a sister institute in Manila. This bold move is also a way to strengthen the unity and solidarity of the third word activists in order to intensify the struggle for their political and social agenda and for a new internationalism in the face of the worst capitalist crisis in the century.